Superconductor-to-metal transition in overdoped cuprates
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Abstract We present a theoretical framework for understanding the behavior of the normal and superconducting states of overdoped cuprate high temperature superconductors in the vicinity of the doping-tuned quantum superconductor-to-metal transition. The key ingredients on which we focus are d-wave pairing, a flat antinodal dispersion, and disorder. Even for homogeneous disorder, these lead to effectively granular superconducting correlations and a superconducting transition temperature determined in large part by the superfluid stiffness rather than the pairing scale.
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OpenAlex topics: Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism · Advanced Condensed Matter Physics · Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
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